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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID MCCANOE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE HANFORD, PEGKHAM & MOOANGE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

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EJHECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,414, dated March 9, 1886.

Application filed June 11, 1885. Serial No. 168,319.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID MoGANoE, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hand-Pieces for Reins, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to hand-pieces for use on reins to facilitate the gripping of the reins firmly.

My hand-piece consists of two parts having bearings for the fingers, hinged together at one side and adapted to interlock at the other side, one of said parts being adapted to swing in a plane parallel with the other in order to admit of the application of the hand-piece to a rein.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of one side of my hand-piece. Fig. 2 is a View of the other side. Fig. 3 is a front View. Fig. 4 is a top View, one part being shown in one position in bold outline and in another position in dotted outline.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A A designate the two parts of my handpiece. They consist, essentially, of plates having the rear ends bent or curved in opposite directions to form bearings for the fingers. The plate-like portions are hinged together at one side by means of a pin, a, on the one entering a hole in the other and riveted or headed beyondit. One part may therefore be swung over the other or laterally beyond it. When (No model.)

ive, and may be easily applied and removed. 5

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A hand-piece for a rein, consisting of two parts, each provided with a bearing for the fingers made integral therewith, said partsbeing provided with fiat surfaces adapted to receive a rein between them, and hinged together at one side so that one may be swung aside in a plane parallel with said surfaces, in order that a rein may be laid upon the other of said parts, a projection upon one of said parts extending above the flat surface thereof referred to and against the rein, and an interlocking device upon the side of the parts opposite the hinge, for securing the parts together about the rein, substantially as specified.

DAVID McOANCE. Witnesses:

ISAIAH PEOKHAM, F. I. .PECKHAM. 

